Law

Two former employees of Jim St. Raymond, the would-be developer of a failed $350 million condo-retail project, say he improperly used escrow deposits to help cover overwhelming costs. “He basically wiped the account clean,” said Andrew Bellard, hired by St. ...

Reservations are now being taken for CityBusiness’ 2010 Leadership in Law event to be held from 5-7:30 p.m. March 16 at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Reservations for the event can be made by contacting Tom Misener, events coordinator, ...

Adams and Reese has continued its expansion into Florida with the addition of a Tampa office, which will open March 1. The new office, which will add eight lawyers and a certified land planner who were formerly with the Ft. ...

A federal judge Monday dismissed a lawsuit over a police blockade that kept some Hurricane Katrina victims from crossing a bridge out of New Orleans in the storm’s aftermath. U.S. District Judge Mary Ann Vial Lemmon ruled that closing the ...

Jim St. Raymond, would-be developer of a failed $350 million condo-retail project in the former Jefferson Plaza Shopping Center, included deposits paid to his development company in his personal bankruptcy filing. The deposits, totaling $32,000, are a tiny fraction of ...

Reservations are now being taken for CityBusiness’ 2010 Leadership in Law event to be held from 5-7:30 p.m. March 16 at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Reservations for the event can be made by contacting Tom Misener, events coordinator, ...

A federal appeals court has turned away a lawsuit filed by two political parties over the 2008 election. According to the ruling handed down Thursday by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, the Libertarian Party and ...

BOSTON – The mogul behind Guess Jeans was at the top of the Top 10 Jury Verdicts for 2009, as compiled by Lawyers USA, a sister publication of New Orleans CityBusiness. Five former employees of Georges Marciano claimed he falsely ...

Entergy Corp. has filed a second suit against the Army Corps of Engineers over flooding that followed Hurricane Katrina, leaving behind hundreds of millions of dollars to power systems and higher rates for hundreds of thousands of electricity customers in ...

A jury has been seated for a trial over a patient’s death at a New Orleans hospital in Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath. Opening statements were expected this afternoon in the wrongful death case that a relative of Althea LaCoste filed against ...